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TEXAS STATE SENATOR ENDS 15-HOUR FILIBUSTER; VOTING BILL PASSES

Democrat Carol Alvarado began speaking shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday even
though she acknowledged that the filibuster would not block the legislation.



Texas state Sen. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, talks with staff as she prepares to
filibuster Senate Bill 1, a voting bill, at the Texas Capitol, Wednesday, Aug.
11, 2021, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) | Eric Gay/AP Photo

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

08/12/2021 11:01 AM EDT

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AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas state senator ended a 15-hour filibuster Thursday
morning in the Democrats' latest defiance over a sweeping GOP voting measure,
which then passed just minutes after she wearily left the floor.

Democrat Carol Alvarado began speaking shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday even
though she acknowledged that the filibuster would not block the legislation. She
was required to remain standing and speaking, was prohibited from taking
bathroom breaks and wore running shoes on the Senate floor, just as former Texas
legislator Wendy Davis did in 2013 when she filibustered a sweeping
anti-abortion bill.



“What’s wrong with drive-thru voting during a pandemic? What’s wrong with
24-hour voting? Why can’t we have expanded voting hours for the people who have
to work late? Where is all the so-called fraud?" Alvarado said in the closing
moments of her filibuster. “Where does it end?



She hugged her Democratic colleagues after finally putting down the microphone.
Minutes later, the bill passed 18-11 in the Senate, although the measure is now
once again stalled since Democrats continue to stay away from the state House of
Representatives in a standoff that has now entered a 32nd day.

Alvarado's filibuster began hours after officers of the Texas House of
Representatives delivered civil arrest warrants for more than 50 absent
Democrats on Wednesday. Frustrated Republicans have ratcheted up efforts to end
the standoff over the elections bill.

But after sergeants-at-arms finished making the rounds inside the Texas Capitol
— dropping off copies of the warrants at Democrats' offices, and politely asking
staff to tell their bosses to please return — there were few signs the stalemate
that began when Democrats fled to Washington, D.C., in July in order to grind
the statehouse to a halt was any closer to a resolution.

The latest escalation threw the Texas Legislature into uncommon territory with
neither side showing any certainty over what comes next, or how far Republicans
could take their determination to secure a quorum of 100 present lawmakers — a
threshold they were just four members shy of reaching.

“I don’t worry about things I can’t control,” said state Rep. Erin Zwiener, one
of the Democrats who was served with a warrant and has refused to return to the
Capitol. “Nothing about these warrants are a surprise, and they don’t
necessarily affect my plans.”

Democrats, who acknowledge they cannot permanently stop the GOP voting bill from
passing because of Republicans' dominance in both chambers of the Texas
Legislature, responded to the warrants with new shows of defiance. One turned up
in a Houston courtroom and secured a court order aimed at preventing him from
being forced to return to the Capitol.

The NAACP also stepped in on behalf of the Texas Democrats, urging the Justice
Department to investigate whether a federal crime was being committed when
Republicans threatened to have them arrested.

Refusing to attend legislative sessions is a violation of House rules — a civil
offense, not a criminal one, leaving the power the warrants carry to get
Democrats back to the chamber unclear, even for the Republicans who invoked it.
Democrats would not be jailed. Republican Travis Clardy, who helped negotiate an
early version of the voting bill that Democrats first stopped with a walkout in
May, told ABC News he believed “they can be physically brought back to the
Capitol."




State Rep. Jim Murphy, who leads the Texas House Republican Caucus, said while
he has not seen a situation like this play out during his tenure, his
understanding is that officers could go to the missing lawmakers and ask them to
come back.

“I am hoping they will come because the warrants have been issued and they don’t
want to be arrested,” Murphy said. “It is incredible to me that you have to
arrest people to do the job they campaigned for, for which they took an oath of
office to uphold the Texas Constitution.”

The Texas Department of Public Safety, the state's law enforcement agency,
referred questions about the warrants to the House speaker.

The move marks a new effort by the GOP to end the protest over elections
legislation that began a month ago with 50 Democrats taking private jets to
Washington in a dramatic show of resolve to make Texas the front lines of a new
national battle over voting rights.

Republicans are now in the midst of their third attempt since May to pass a raft
of tweaks and changes to the state’s election code that would make it harder —
and even, sometimes, legally riskier — to cast a ballot in Texas, which already
has some of the most restrictive election laws in the nation.

Texas is among several states where Republicans have rushed to enact new voting
restrictions in response to former President Donald Trump’s false claims that
the 2020 election was stolen. The current bill is similar to the ones Democrats
blocked last month by going to the nation's capital. It would ban 24-hour
polling locations, drive-thru voting and give partisan poll watchers more
access, among other things.

It was unclear Wednesday how many Democrats remained in Washington, where they
had hoped to push President Joe Biden and other Democrats there to pass federal
legislation that would protect voting rights in Texas and beyond. Senate
Democrats pledged to make it the first order of business when they return in the
fall, even though they don’t have a clear strategy for overcoming steadfast
Republican opposition.



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